and georgia agrees to, but one of the conditions that georgia imposes on the u.s. when it cedes what would become alabama and mississippi is we want you to get rid of these indians that are going to be left within the bounds of the state of georgia. the creeks were there. and importantly for our purposes, the cherokees were there in northwest georgia. georgia couldn't get rid of them because the constitution vests the treaty power in the federal government. only the federal government can negotiate treaties with tribes. the constitution also vested the war-making power in the federal government, so georgia couldn't constitutionally kick them out. but they got a promise out of the federal government that they would take care of it. i'll show you where these lands were. these are the views and we're about to chak perspective. kevin mentioned the treat of hopewell. it used to be the cherokee included kentucky and all the rest. niece are successive treaties at hopewell, that's the peace treaty between cherokee and the united states at the end of the revolution, the ken

guest: this is exactly what georgia democrats are saying, that this will only energize georgia democrats, people that want to come out in droves for senator raphael warnock who is up for election. it is something we saw in the 2018 election. if you look at the race between stacey abrams and brian kemp, even though both of them were known for their stances on voting rights -- brian kemp being the secretary of state at the time in charge of georgia election policy, d.c. abrams as a national -- stacey abrams as a national voting rights advocate. it turned out to be that way in part because democrats realized, in talking about voting rights, they were concerned it could hamper turnout. it could also energize turnout from voters like we just heard. it is the foundational cornerstone right of democracy. if you tell people that there are no obstacles to vote, they will find other ways to make sure that they are heard. that is why you heard so much in 2020 about a plan to vote, multiple avenues to vote. if you have issues voting by mail, make sure you vote early. if you have issues voting early,

that is the georgia public radio report on the georgia voting law.st counties you will have an extra weekend day and your weekday early voting hours will likely be longer. in actuality the georgia voting law that president biden claimed ended early voting actually did the exact opposite. it expanded the voting opportunities. unfortunately president biden repeating the lie had real-world consequences look at this with major-league baseball. this repeated lie cause the all-star game in atlanta to die. i would have loved to ask senator warnock how he will answer to his constituents for the loss of that game. ms. abrams i do have a question for you. when you heard the comment that repeated falsehood from the president that this is something that would hamper voting rights. and the comments about the georgia law, does this hurt or help your cause for access to more individuals. >> with all due respect to senator i disagree with your characterization early in person voting 70 percent of counties already had more than eight hours of early voting. sb 202 rat

>> last year, georgia -- i can only speak to georgia. i know there's been lots of questions about pennsylvania, what happened in wisconsin and michigan and states like that. in georgia, we followed the state law. we're in a pandemic. the governor declared a state of emergency. we had a national stay-at-home order. obviously during the june primary, we had to look at what do we do, how are people going to vote in the pandemic. what we did is we actually sent out absentee ballot applications. before we did that, we talked to our -- our general counsel talked to the governor's general counsel, told them what we were going to do, why we were going to do that, they understood. we did that with the lieutenant governor's office, they understood. we talked to the president of the senate pro tem, the speaker of the house. no one voiced an objection until after we had done it. the speaker of the house voiced an objection afterwards. this is why we did that. the counties did not have staff able to handle the absentee ballot applications. and all th

what is georgia do this is 1827, georgia issues these resolutions in december 1828 the next governor john forsythe persuades or pushes through the legislature a statute. that acts on this idea from troop that says okay cherokees you guys stay as long as you want, but from now on we're we're going to divide your lands up and you're going to be parts of four george accounts. and you can keep your own laws until june of next year or june 1830 at which point you will all be subject to the laws of georgia and all of your laws will be null and void. so, but you're welcome to stay. and unsurprisingly the cherokee nation says no. that's not how this is going to work. now. what made georgia confident that it could get away with this now after so many years was the election the previous month of this guy andrew jackson to the white house in jackson was on record as being supportive of the idea of forcing indians out of the southeast and finding some other place for them. they thought jacksonville gets sworn in and he'll actually take some federal action to support us in this effort. and of cou

that's the georgia public radio report on the georgia voting law. quote, for most counties you will have an extra weekend weekday and your weekday hours will be later, end quote. the voting hours that president biden claimed ending early voting actually did the exact opposite. it expanded these voting opportunities. unfortunately, president biden's repeating of the lie had rapid real-world consequences. you look at this with major league baseball. so this repeated lie caused the all-star game in atlanta to die. and i would have loved to have asked senator warnock and probably will how he will answer to his constituents for the loss of that game. and ms. abrams, i do have a question that i wanted to come to you on. when you heard the comment, the repeated falsehood from the president that this is something that would hamper voting rights and the comments about the georgia law, does this hurt or help your cause for access for voting to more individuals? ms. abrams: with all due respect, senator, to "the washington post", i disagree with your character

georgia, this is a tax cut for more than 2 million families in georgia.e cutting taxes for people by a tax credit. we are lifting more than one million children out of poverty in america, cutting child poverty in half. how are we going to pay for all of this? tax cuts for the middle-class and working-class families. it's about time the very wealthy and corporations start paying their fair share. it's as simple as that. i'm not going to bore you with the details, but no one making under $400,000 a year is going to pay a single additional penny in tax, no one. as i said last night, the middle class and working people in this country are already paying enough in taxes. it's time for the richest 1% of americans in corporate america to start to do their part. last year, for example, 55 of our largest corporations in america paid zero dollars in federal taxes. and that made $40 billion. not a penny in tax. if we had a minimum book tax for corporations, just the fortune 500 companies, just the minimum tax of 15% -- i bet all of you would sign up for 15% tax righ

watch this. >> georgia has a voter id and georgia's voter id is free colorado charges $12.67 for theird. colorado has 15 days of early voting in person, georgia has 17 early voting in person. georgia has 29 days of mail and balance, colorado has 25 days of mailing ballots, we permit sunday voting, colorado prohibits sunday voting, this is about politics and nothing about voter access and if you are talking about politics, politics has no business in baseball and no business in business. liz: now state vincent the commissioner says baseball is an awkward position of defending colorado tougher law and democrats are silent on this. what do you say. >> it makes no sense clearly when you stack up the facts in terms of the law that they recently passed to shore up the issue of in my judgment absentee ballot voting, it is clearly available and you have to come in and present identification into don't understand why that is so objectionable i go to the bank and cash a check, i needed id, go to that airport i needed id. i go pick up my prescription at walgreens, i needed id. so even if you don'

the honest election projects for georgia, a string of press releases urging georgia to investigate its 2020 results and take up voter suppression legislation and congratulated the state for enacting s.b. 202 last month. last is true the vote, a group who recruits poll watchers, finding suspicious activity, is focused on voters in neighborhoods of color. like the other groups, it's largely opaque coming through anonymous donations by a donor trust as well as the bradley foundation, and the state policy network. there is this complex interlocking network of billionaire right-wing dark money that i think tends to signal why the whole herd would have moved at once based on no actual evidence of fraud or dishonesty in the elections. chair durbin: thank you, senator. senator whitehouse: has my time expired? chair durbin: i'm afraid it is. senator whitehouse: i will yield my remaining time. chair durbin: senator graham. senator graham: thank you. to my dear friend, sheldon, i appreciate your consistency. so would account for the elephant herd is apparently marching in one way. h.r. 1, i belie

i understand the history of georgia. will continue to fight for that in georgia. >> thank you for your trust in our elections and national affairs and thank you for joining us today. ♪♪ ♪♪ california republican joins us. the author of two new pieces of legislation focused specifically on the issue of the vaccine passports. congressman, what would those duplex. >> we t have two separate piece, one is on transportation that i have a strong belief that you shouldn't be singled out because you may not have a vexing passport in order to use airlines, amtrak et cetera. so we see even the biden administration backed away from the initial flurry of the vaccine passports and possible requirement for them. the second bill

georgia law -- georgia saw a historic turnout during the last election. among absentee balance we get an answer to our question. 65% of those who returned absentee ballots voted for president biden. 35% for president trump. it seems republican lawmakers in georgia have concluded that the solution to their election problems is to make it harder to vote. because the voters who did vote in the last election were not there voters. their voters. that is un-american. in our republic, politicians do not choose voters. voters choose us. we should enact legislation that makes it as easy as possible to vote. there are numbers of steps congress can take to advance this goal like the john lewis voting rights advancement at. -- act. i went back to read the transcript of the january 2 telephone conversation between president donald trump and mr. raffensperger. it was recorded. there is no doubt what was said. the president was explicit. he said ""i just want to find 11,780 votes, one more than we have." the president, who had 17 days left, added that mr. raffensperger

georgia should do the same. why are 400,000 ballots in georgia still in fulton county without the required envelopes? that is crazy. there was a question earlier as to why the secretary of state has been stripped of his "authority" to make election policy. it is a constitutional mandate that the state legislatures are responsible, not the secretary of state, not the governor or any other unelected official. last thing, please, c-span, there is a difference between the absentee voting process and me as a former election -- or rather voting coordinator for the military. there is a difference between absentee voting process and this mail-in voting hybrid process that was created by the states in response to covid. i think c-span should define both of these things and start correcting folks when they get them wrong. host: why don't you go first? guest: i guess i don't have any response to that other than, i am not -- that provision in the georgia law. when they take away the power from the secretary of state and giv

georgia has 17 days of early voting in person. georgia has 29 days of mail-in ballots.orado has 25 days of mail-in ballots. we permit sunday voting. colorado prohibits sunday voting. this is all about politics and nothing about the voter access. if you were talking about politics, politics, politics, it has no business in baseball. it has no business in business. elizabeth: but now as faye vincent, baseball commissioner says, guy, baseball is in the awkward of position of defending colorado's tougher law. democrats are silent on this. what do you say? >> well it makes no sense clearly when you stack up the facts in terms of the law that they recently passed to try to really shore up the issue of, in my judgment, absentee ballot voting. you still, it clearly is available. you simply have to come in and present some identification. i really, i don't understand why that is so objectionable. i go into the bank to cash a check, i need an i.d. i go to the airport, i need an i.d. i go in to pick up my prescription at walgreen's's, i need an i.d. and so even if you don't georgi

stacy abrams, georgia has gotten merck because her lies about this law that joe biden inherited, georgiagoing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity and lots of jobs and i suspect voters in georgia will keep that and as you point out at the beginning of the segment despite all that in spite of the lies from democratic politicians and liberal media a majority of the american people support the georgia law just like a super majority support things like requiring photo identification when you go to vote. these are common sense principles designed to make voting safe, secure, accessible and convenient. is something you should ask for when it comes to voting, the thing i worry about most is regardless of how this election comes out if you are democrat and if you lose the senate seat, lose the governor's eat and because republicans they will say they cheated. it goes back to i don't believe the election results, that is disastrous for the country. final thought? >> the worst offenders stacy abrams who to my knowledge to this day has not conceded she lost the governor's ra

shouldn't they smash georgia? so georgia never comes back as a state.anchors. >> these are news anchors. we have to realize that behind their story,ia there is a meta-story in the meta-story is the ideological motor that's driving the story. i think the real differences in the past the meta-story was always there but it was more subdued. reporters recognized that it's not a good idea to let it out to obviously because their bias would become too blatant. i think one of the silver linings of all this is that i think when we look at these guys, you have to be a complete dunce not to see that they are advocates. they are more passionate than lawyers on one side of the casei the idea that they are objective or trustworthy or neutral umpires making sense of the facts, that's laughable. >> laura: they all work for the dnc. mollie and dinesh, thank you. now that the pharmaceutical companies are conducting trials on adolescents with the covid vaccine, the follow-up is do kids need the vaccine? doctors who have thought provoking thoughts on all of it join us nex

i read the new law in georgia. and boy, it seems like georgia is far more liberal, if you will, in allowing voting and encouraging voting for everybody.y. i don't see those same things in joe's home state. do you?an >> no, but i do think they did show something. now we know what stacey abrams has been doing in her spare time besides raising a lot of money. she is writing talking points for joe biden because she was the one who started this gym crow 2.0, which is a disgrace to call what is going on here anything resembling. what this does is allow more people to vote. over the past four cycles, minority participation in georgia has improved. they have gotten better by double digits. yet you have people like senator raphael warnock claiming voter suppression. what they are doing is they are practicing voter suppression because they are making everyone believe it's hard to vote. it is not hard to vote. georgia's law strengthens that makes it secure. >> sean: here you've got joe biden, a guy that stood side-by-side wit

giant is based in georgia and is noticeably been silent on the georgia voter restriction law a coalition of executives from georgia's largest companies and fake leaders from across the state called for a boycott of home depot on tuesday this comes on the heels of a committee hearing in the nation's capital where newly elected georgia senator raphael warnock fair fight bounder stacy abrams and p. president sherrilyn i feel testified against georgia's progressive voter legislation civil rights attorney robert shapiro joins us now. robert s.b. $20.00 to the voter suppression law that has been making headlines since its passage is just that it's a law what tools are at the disposal of advocates now that the voter suppression and jim crow is the law of the land in georgia and what do you think boycotts will accomplish. well we have to understand that fundamentally speaking georgia. started in 1907 when we passed the 1st voter id bill it was not put into use until the 2002 election forward to the 2002 election very good night. been a republican elected for 130 years in georgia since that 2002

the guy knows georgia. your reaction to president biden's reversal on the way he calls it jim crow-esque. how can he equate the two? >> because he lies. it's not complicated. i got so incensed. i've done two podcasts laying out this whole story. stacey abrams was making a lot of money out of this stuff, she thought the jim crow 2.0 website two weeks before the bill was passed. they were setting this whole game. i don't know how she got the president of the united states to talk about jim crow 2.0 but he did. you see a linkage. by not only lied about the georgia law. "the washington post," very seldom taking on a liberal democrat, give him four pinocchios, the most you can get. basically saying everything he said about the georgia law was a lie and after that he went on espn and repeated precisely the lies that "the washington post" had just disowned. it's not a new thing. one of the podcasts that i did takes you back to robert bork when he was nominated by ronald reagan. guess who lived the fight to smear r

. >> calls are growing to boycott georgia and georgia-based companies after republican governor brianp signed what many describe as the worst voter suppression legislation since the jim crow era. delta and coca cola are now speaking out against the restrictions -- but is it too late? we will talk to cliff albright of black voters matter about the fight to preserve voting rights across the country. then to oregon governor kate brown on her efforts to expand vote by mail -- a practice used in oregon for decades. >> two mons after we saw the turnout in the 2020 election republicans are trying to rewrite history by rolling back -- and expanding vote by mail. it is on democratic, it is un-american. and i am taking action. >> plus we look at the political and health crisis in brazil. we will speak to celso amorim who served as brazil's foreign minister under luiz inÁcio lula da silva. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow. org, the war and peace report. -- the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. in minnesota, the police supervisor of derek chauvin testified th

as somebody who's from georgia and has long covered the georgia legislature, i can tell you that georgia telling the big lie before. it was the big lie. 15 years ago when i was covering the legislature there in georgia , they were pioneering voter id laws. they were mimicked by several other states after georgia was successful in passing those. they were arguing that it was about ballot integrity and the threat of voter fraud that s yet to be proven. including in this last election which was declared by our own government as the most secure in u.s. history. this has long been a solution in search of a problem. it has come to define the issue of election integrity, what we know as 21st-century voter suppression and intimidation. in 2020, georgia is leading the way, bolstered by the big lie perpetuated by former president trump and espoused by other republicans. it is not new. it is certainly something that i think we are continuing to see now that georgia has passed its law in states from texas to arizona and beyond. amy: when you hear the pushback from republicans including the governor

biden also telling georgia that georgia needs to smarten up. here is the president. >> president biden: they need to deal with this. georgia and other states to smarten up, stop it, stop it. it is not -- >> republican governor brian kemp continues to bristle at charges this is a new jim crow law. he said the state had to do something after the number of absentee voters tripled in the last election. here is governor kemp. >> doing the voter i.d. on absent east will make it more efficient for them. speed up the process and also brings another level of security. so who would be against that? how is that jim crow 2.0? >> former major league baseball commissioner saying baseball's decision to move the all-star game out of georgia was a mistake. he wrote in the "wall street journal." major league baseball can't become a weapon in the culture wars, a hostage for one political party or ideology. that three day event and as much as $100 million will now go to colorado coors field. harris, back to you. >> harris: steve, thank you very much. senator linds

the same thing happened in georgia.ross the country with donald trump and other republicans right to intimidate these local officials. talk about the danger of the georgia law in respect to allowing this state legislature to step in and actually make decisions for the secretary of state and even local officials. >> well, joe, this is really the dangerous path that a law, like this, that was just passed in georgia will create for other states. that's the fundamental thing here. now that this law has passed in georgia, we're seeing other states like arizona, states that held republican-led legislatures that will focus on passing a similar law. make no mistake, this is a systemic effort that republicans are taking across the country to try to restrict the rights of voters. and yes, of course, governor kemp comes forward and says, there's actually a couple of things that this law does to expand the rights of voters. and i'm so glad, joe, that you in the show took this segment to where you did, because it's so important to l

incomes of georgia workers.e sports events should have stayed in georgia and then turned their celebrations into a kind of nonpartisan voter registration drive. in education drive about this. there is no doubt that president biden went further than even georgia democrats wanted to go. although i have to disagree with ben, the georgia law and the colorado voting rules are not equivalent. >> that is not true and you can't get away with saying that. they are very close in terms of proximity and you cannot get away with saying that. it is simply not true. i'm sorry. when you look at this georgia law, it is extremely reasonable. there is not -- there is no case that can reasonably be made that it represents jim crow in the south. >> that's not what i said. i said net, net, net, the voting restrictions in georgia, look at what colorado does. they send absentee ballots to every single registered voter. you can register in georgia up until election day. in georgia -- in colorado, in georgia i think it stops 28 days befo

georgia is on everyone's mind. but this is a national issue. >> you know, i wonder if you can just take us through what was in your mind, the whole thing. what were you trying to see and what was your reaction arrested -- when they reacted the way they did. >> well, i serve as the caucus secretary. so my first role was to reach out to as many legislators in the democratic caucus to let them know that the bill was being signed, just like i had been doing all day long when the bill was being debated, when the minority report was happening, when we were sending out information to constituents to let them know. so i wanted to be present in the room to witness what was happening. we look at this as equivalent to taking away the rights of five million black and brown georgians. there needed to be at least one in the room. >> and there wasn't. and you were arrested. were you surprised that they did not pursue those charges against you? can you just take us through your reactions? surprised, relieved, the least they could

law as georgia.t is going on here what do you think. >> what is going on here is politics, politics, politics. the one thing you can almost liz, count on for the left to do, sooner or later they overplay their hand. that i think is what's happened here because what they're doing is so difficult for them to explain, it is so wrong, it is so ludicrous, it is so absurd i think even moderate democrats see through this and will be opposed to it. so once again, they have overplayed their hand and i think it is going to rebound against them. elizabeth: yeah. we've got more than 21,000 ballots were disqualified in colorado in the 2016 election because of problems with voter i.d. the other thing too, sir, the u.s. census data shows atlanta is 51% black. denver is 9% black. why is president biden and former president barack obama applauding baseball's boycott of atlanta when it slams millions of black families and workers? they could lose 190 million bucks in revenue in atlanta, what do you think? >> they're a

wait a minute, did i just say georgia? i thought georgia had been canceled? ostracized? ago, major league baseball withdrew its all-star program.

or in georgia rather than colorado. in georgia is anywhere from 17 to 19 days in colorado fewer. demographics mixed in here too appear there it is on the screen. we have compared the georgia voting laws to colorado. aunt johanna my come to you on this because it makes you scratch your head a little bit. why move the game to some place that actually a little bit less access in terms of days and a lot the same access of voter i.d. registration? before one thing that was important the georgia law specifically said that you can't mail out to every registered voter absentee ballot and that is an important part of getting people engaged in the election system who may not otherwise be engaged. and on mlb i agree with jen psaki, it is their decision. this idea democrats pull the string of what is going on of these decisions is just false. if they have control of these major organizations, they would undoubtedly because you have democrats in georgia, please keep your business in georgia, have a different advantage point. so i think they made the decision independently. i would like us to

hydrating is still fleel georgia.the claim that this law will end voting at 5:00, that's a lie, too. wait a second. joe biden just said that on tv so where does he get the idea that voting ends at 5:00. it turns out the big paper in atlanta "the atlanta journal constitution" reported that the law would ban voting after 5:00. the paper's reporters apparently hadn't read the law. they had to append this correction to their piece which effectively was the same as admitting they were repeating talking point without doing any research which is what they were doing. here it is, quote: a previous version of this story said the new law would limit voting hours on election day in georgia polling places are open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and if you are in line by 7:00 p.m. you are allowed to cast your ballot. nothing in the new law changes those rules, end quote. that's the truth. finally appended to a lie. now, joe biden got his research on that bill from reporters who did no research. see how that works? today at the white

just like georgia. so what message is major league baseball sending to fulton and cobb counties in georgia and the good people of georgia? joe biden, stacey abrams, major league baseball, delta, coca-cola, they all lied about george and the election laws and that's because the people of georgia almost a hundred million dollars in revenue. every person in georgia should be furious with biden, abrams, major league baseball and frankly almost 200 spineless corporations for amplifying these lies. joe biden played the race card, plain and simple. innocent people have now suffered. the worst part of this is biden's home state of delaware, and they have far more restrictive laws on voting and here's what the weekend of frail and the cognitively struggling joe biden told our own peter doocy earlier today when asked about his own boycott calls. take a look. >> do you think the masters golf tournament should be moved out of georgia? >> i think that's up to the masters. look, you know, it's reassuring to see that

naturally georgia governor brian camp threw a fit declaring georgians and all americans should fully understand what the major league baseball's knee jerk decision means cancell culture and political activists are are coming for every aspect of your life sports included. but look who are my friends we start patton the m l b t n t on their backs for their newfound woke mr and stand against injustice. let's keep in mind that since $21580.00 and teak comcast united health group wal-mart another big businesses have donated a combined $50000000.00 to state republican lawmakers who are currently supporting voter suppression bills across the united states and that according to the consumer advocacy advocacy group public citizen during the 2020 election cycle alone u.s. corporations donated $22000000.00 to republican architects the voter suppression bills that are advancing through state legit state legislatures nationwide and while nobody likes dealing with the spoiled brat who got to say it's even worse dealing with their enablers now let's start watching the hawks. in a city. where so. is

let's talk about this georgia election law with former georgia senator david perdue, senator, thanks for being here. senator, your reaction to what's happening about this bill and what's being talked about? >> you know, bret, as a son of a man whoen integrated one of the you school systems in the state of georgia and someone who has fought for equality in the state last 60 years personally and someone who fought for criminal justice reform, opportunity zones and hvcu you i'm insulted by the narrative democrats are trying to perpetrate here. this bill, i'm not in office and running for office, so i can be very objective with yours viewers. that is this. this bill makes it easier to vote and hard tore cheat. it builds integrity in the system who were concerned about that in november of last year. it makes it easier for people to vote in every one of our 159 counties. this rhetoric that you are hear democrats is all about power and all about raising money for political operations. >> bret: so when you hear that some people and democrats are leading the charge, say that it's harder for p

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apparently a whole host of them make up today's republican party for evidence look no further than georgia where after clearly losing the presidency in 2 key senate seats in the 2020 elections georgia republicans threw a temper tantrum and changed the state's election laws just to make it easier for them to win the next go around in response not only did major league baseball announce that the 2021 all-star game would no longer be played be played in atlanta but a number of major u.s. corporations including a t.n.t. comcast and georgia based companies like coca-cola and delta all issued statements denouncing these voter suppression measures naturally georgia governor brian camp threw a fit declaring georgians and all americans should fully understand what the major league baseball's need your decision means cancel culture and political activists or are coming for every aspect of your life sports included. but before my friends we start patting the m.-l. be. on their backs for their newfound woke mr and stand against injustice. let's keep in mind that since 2015 a.t.m. teac comcast united h

problem is citizens of georgia know better, and believe me, black and brown people in georgia definitely know better. and we're doing all that we can, we'll fight it and hopefully get it changed. >> secretary griswold, watching this play out in georgia, intensity contested area of political comment, right? even in the last gubernatorial election with brian kemp and stacey abrams, recurring in many states. the politics in your state, is this the site of fights? if the republicans took over the state legislature or senate would they move for that or is it settled and understood as way colorado does elections? >> well, that's a great question, chris. we do have bipartisan support of our election model. it was passed in 2013, implemented by my predecessor republican secretary of state. but at the same time, there were six bills introduced this legislative session to take us backwards, undo our vote by mail and force us to throw out ballots not counted on election night, put a lot of the barriers we're seeing attempted put in place across the nation. i think it's really important for viewers

wait a minute, did i just say georgia? i thought georgia had been canceled? ostracized? big sporting events because of its racist voting laws. a week ago, major league baseball withdrew its all-star

georgia law makes sense.oughtful people who think the georgia law is a mistake. our job as baseball is to bring fans together so they can all watch the game. we don't get involved in politics. it is not hard to do. it is not hard to say. they've all made a terrible mistake. >> bill: 8,000 hotel rooms are under contract by baseball. all canceled. they go off into the ether. i don't know if you saw fay vincent. he wrote a scathing piece in the "wall street journal" saying manfred made the wrong call. >> major league baseball makes revenues no matter where the game is played. the only people hurt here are really the small businesses and the people who work at stadiums in atlanta, working in hotels in atlanta. they're the victims of this major league baseball boycott, no one else. >> bill: there were 500,000 people who showed up to vote in georgia who had already requested an absentee ballot. i don't know if you knew that number or not. the secretary of state wrote a piece this week. maligned by republicans and p